1. The Origins
of the English
Language
María F.RojasVictoriano

2. The linguistic geography of
Europe

3. The linguistic geography
of Europe
•At the
beginning of
the Christian
era... Speakers move
Germanic-
into Roman
Speaking North
territory
Western
Europe
Celtic-Speaking Overlaid by the
South spread of Latin

4. Language groups
Celtic Latin Germanic

5. Celtic
Celtic-speaking groups Leaving •Gaelic (Irish
colonized both Britain as a Celtic)
and Ireland
result
•British Celtic
(spoken in
Britain)

6. Latin
‘Originally the language of Latium, then it
became the dialect of Rome’
Growth of the Latin spreads to modern
Roman Empire Italy, Spain, Portugal, part of
Britain, France, Germany and other countries.
Latin
changed into
different
Decline Latin disappeared as a spoken varieties
of the language is several parts of the which
Roman world, but survived in the central became the
Empire areas of continental Europe
Romance
Languages.

7. ‘Latin as the international
language of scholarship’
‘Major languages of Europe have been
profoundly influenced by Latin, not only
in vocabulary, but also in grammar’

8. Germani
c
German: a mixture of the
Modern Germanic dialects of the south of
languages derive from Denmark.
the dialects of different
tribal groups
Dutch and Flemish: derive
from dialects from the North
Sea and island in the area of
Weser and Rhine.
Frisian: comes from the
coastal dialects.

9. Language contact in
Europe
‘The language spoken by a tribe could change as
the result of contact and conquest’
When a native population e.i. When a native
adopts a language, they population
do not become ethnic adopted
speakers of that Celtic, they did
language. not become ethnic
Celts, but Celtic-
speaking
members of their
tribe.

10. Contributing factors
associated to
language changes
within a tribe.
Military contact. Food trade and
Contact between e.i. German exchange of a
tribes influenced mercenaries variety of
their languages. recruited in Rome products.
adopted Latin.

11. Language in Britain
Pretanic Prydain in
Islands IVc Welsh
B.C
Britain and
Ireland
Britannia in Britain in
Latin English

12. Germanic migrants settled on the east
and southern coasts of Britain.

13. Early English
‘We need to make
inferences about the
spoken language from
the written language’

14. Early English
Dialects
West
Kentish Saxon
Both
become
Northumbrian Mercian
Anglian

15. Northumbrian
Mercian
Kentish
West Saxon

16. Inscriptions, text
s on wood and
Written
magical English
purposes
as
Which was used for
Germanic tribes
used an alphabet Christianity is
called RUNES introduced to the Conventions
Which Anglo-Saxons between
influenced
each other languages start
with where
to develop
Known as
A new literacy so
Latin culture is introduce
with it
To make
Another solution is found
the earliest Digraphs Group of
glosses
letters
representing
A way must be to
Represent are one sound
found to use
Latin letters English sounds
Which leads to